Nearly 30 years after selling her groundbreaking restaurant, Cecilia Chiang is still making an impact on Chinese food in America.
, the chef of Junzi Kitchen in New York City, found out that Cecilia Chiang would be celebrating her 99th birthday at his restaurant, he spent weeks creating a menu that reflected Chiang’s legacy. It was a daunting task considering that Chinese food as we know it in America, dishes like Kung Pao Chicken and Smoked Tea Duck, can be traced back to the San Francisco restaurant Chiang opened in 1961, the Mandarin.
During the early 1960s, the Chinese population in the U.S. was primarily Cantonese. According to Peter Kim, Director of the, this context helped Chiang’s vision come to life. “Against this backdrop, Chiang's influence was paradigm-shifting,” Kim said. “She introduced Americans to an entirely new set of flavors from Northern China, Sichuan, and Hunan.”
“What keeps my grandmother going is the fact that she never stops,” Siena said. “She’s always doing something: cleaning, cooking, reading the news, talking on the phone, making plans, exercising, and of course eating and drinking champagne.”
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